Word: son-in-law
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...Family. 3) The nursery, full of memories, and the old teddy bear, now minus an arm. 4) The old nanny, who has been with the family 47 years. 5) The plump married daughter. 6) The slim single daughter. 7) The angular eccentric daughter. 8) The red-faced son-in-law, all teeth, plus fours and fatuousness. 9) The attractive unmarried son. 10) The mousy but pretty companion, in love with...
...noisy hodgepodge of 300 anti-Chamberlainites, including Conservative and Liberal M.P.s, Communist Party members and editors of the liberal News Chronicle, set in motion the first all-party united front against the Chamberlain policies. Moving spirits behind the meeting were: its chairman, tall, scented Duncan Sandys (pronounced sands), son-in-law of Winston Churchill and, like him, an independent Conservative; Randolph Churchill, florid son of Winston, who has tried and failed three times to enter Parliament; Her Grace, the Duchess of Atholl, insurgent Conservative who was recently defeated for re-election to the House of Commons; Vernon Bartlett, News Chronicle...
...Were all the characters as rowdy and ribald as Grandma, the play would blow the audience into the middle of next year. But the rest of the family, if unconventional, are given to normal moments of joy and sorrow. After mixing Grandma's outrageous antics with her son-in-law's gruesome suicide and her granddaughter's rocky romance, The Primrose Path fails to come off as well as it might. For, though humor and pathos make the best of friends, realism and farce are immemorial foes...
...fate's irony, Walter Chrysler's son-in-law Byron Foy, now high in the councils of the motor industry, roomed with Frank Murphy in his District Attorney days.* To Mr. Foy and many motor men, the new Attorney General may not seem much better than a Communist. Frank Murphy maintains that Abraham Lincoln, not Karl Marx, gave him his concern for "human rights against property rights...
...later bought an annuity bond business, now has branches in 57 cities with 2,000 salesmen in the field selling certificates with a face value of some $6,000,000 every month. Carmi Thompson has been president for only three years. Actual boss is Founder Paull's son-in-law, onetime Assistant U. S. Attorney General John Marshall, whose family are the biggest stockholders. Sleek, bright-eyed Mr. Marshall, who is chairman of the board, said Fidelity would fight...